If you had your own signature guitar,

[Diego]

Re: If you had your own signature guitar,

I'd probably just take a Les Paul/SG/335/339, choose a color/pickup set of my preference, give it jumbo frets, coil splitting and a piezo pickup and be done with it.

 

[MkIII Renegade]

Re: If you had your own signature guitar,

The blueprint for what I would want already exists via my Charvel San Dimas USA. But I would make substantial changes along the lines of the Soloist Archtop and EBMM Petrucci guitars:

-Full size, extra-thick archtop Strat body, tung oiled koa or mahogany, but with deep cutaways and sculpting as on the San Dimas
-Optional moderately flamed or quilted maple archtop cap with transparent clear, emerald or sapphire finish
-25.5" Birds eye and/or roasted maple neck, 5-bolt all-access style joint, standard Strat style headstock
-Pau Ferro or "chocolate stained" ebony or jet black ebony fretboard
-MOP custom inlays, something not used by Charvel/Jackson
-22 Dunlop 6000 Super Jumbo frets
-Optional medium deep scalloped frets 12-22
-Compound 9.5"/12" radius
-Recessed OFR Pro w/brass locking nut
-Factory oversized brass block, but not giant
-Optional thru-body tune-a-matic style bridge w/locking tuners + Brass nut
-Factory S.I.T. 10-46 @ Eb
-2 or 3 Bareknuckle Pickup HH options (Default Nailbomb/b + Cold Sweat/n) with 3-way + 2 toggle coil tapping, volume knob only/no load
-Optional EMG 85b + 60n + EMG SPC mid boost, volume knob/no load + SPC knob

Would be like this, but with said mods:

 

[80's_Metal]

Re: If you had your own signature guitar,

Jackson warrior or star shape
Mahogany body and neck
Ebony board
Medium large frets
Neck thru
String thru, but Floyd rose optional
Alpine white with blood everywhere
Reversed matching headstock
Duncan sh6 bridge,
dimebucker on Floyd model
No neck pup
No tone knob
Single volume with skull knob
Killswitch arcade button
Comes with small tight hard case
Hand numbered on back of head
Made in USA
Equipped​ with Ernie ball slinky 10s

 

[TRex]

Re: If you had your own signature guitar,

It would look like a Hamer Artist Custom with some fancy wiring in Crimson Red or Amber burst.

Or

A PRS Doublecut McCarthy 594 in a similar finish with a flatter board (12-14"ish) and fancy wiring.

Wiring would include a phase switch, Parallel switch, and a no load tone pot

 

[Richard]

Re: If you had your own signature guitar,

A lot of cool ideas. I almost have all my parts together to get mine going. Just waiting on one more pickup. Cant wait!!!

 

[Johnny the Kid]

Re: If you had your own signature guitar,

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An explorer that looks like that.

I think your Thunderhorse is pretty damn perfect for a signature series for you. Just switch out the pups. Unfortunately I don't think that Epi would go for another silver burst Explorer.

 

[BloodRose]

Re: If you had your own signature guitar,

Hmm.. Hard call for me. I have 2 things in mind I want..

One:
The shape of a Hamer Standard
The neck shape and compound radius board of my Charvel Japanese Pro Mod (only 24.75 scale)
Black quilt maple top, fully bound in white.
Mahogany back and neck
Ebony board
Jumbo Stainless Frets (22 frets)
Sperzel Locking Keys
Orig Floyd top mounted with large brass or stone block
Tremsetter and D tuna
Duncan 59/Custom Hybrid in the Bridge
Duncan ? (Possibly a PG of BW Neck) I haven't found my perfect neck pup yet
1 Vol, 1 Tone (both push pulls to split coils
3 way toggle
Dunlop Straplocks with the pins sunk in


Two:
Would be based on my Washburn MG130 (set neck superstrat)
Black quilt or Flame top on a Mahog body
Mahogany set neck.
Fully bound in white
Explorer headstock
24.75 scale, compound radius, neck shaped like my Japanese Promod
Sperzel keys
orig floyd , top mounted with a large brass or stone block, Dtuna and a trem stopper like a tremelno.
Duncan 59/Custom Hybrid, Quarter pounder neck, Maybe an Alnico Pro staggered in the middle
Push pull Volume to split bucker/Tone and 5 way
Dunlop strap buttons sunk

 

[Drunken Bowling]

Re: If you had your own signature guitar,

There was a thread about this a few years back. My ideal sig was a G & L if I recall. I don't remember the details.

Today, I have no idea.

 

[ehdwuld]

Re: If you had your own signature guitar,

Hmm.. Hard call for me. I have 2 things in mind I want..

One:
The shape of a Hamer Standard
The neck shape and compound radius board of my Charvel Japanese Pro Mod (only 24.75 scale)
Black quilt maple top, fully bound in white.
Mahogany back and neck
Ebony board
Jumbo Stainless Frets (22 frets)
Sperzel Locking Keys
Orig Floyd top mounted with large brass or stone block
Tremsetter and D tuna
Duncan 59/Custom Hybrid in the Bridge
Duncan ? (Possibly a PG of BW Neck) I haven't found my perfect neck pup yet
1 Vol, 1 Tone (both push pulls to split coils
3 way toggle
Dunlop Straplocks with the pins sunk in


Two:
Would be based on my Washburn MG130 (set neck superstrat)
Black quilt or Flame top on a Mahog body
Mahogany set neck.
Fully bound in white
Explorer headstock
24.75 scale, compound radius, neck shaped like my Japanese Promod
Sperzel keys
orig floyd , top mounted with a large brass or stone block, Dtuna and a trem stopper like a tremelno.
Duncan 59/Custom Hybrid, Quarter pounder neck, Maybe an Alnico Pro staggered in the middle
Push pull Volume to split bucker/Tone and 5 way
Dunlop strap buttons sunk

is there anywhere you can get a superstrat with the shorter gibson scale?

 

[Johnny the Kid]

Re: If you had your own signature guitar,

is there anywhere you can get a superstrat with the shorter gibson scale?

Closest I've found to his specs is this.

Ticks a lot of his boxes but no Floyds.

 

[Myaccount876]

Re: If you had your own signature guitar,

Kind of have it (I know I suck at taking pictures). Although I've kind of been switching between mostly a Fender tele or a G&L tele, and pulling this one out occasionally.

 

[dave74]

Re: If you had your own signature guitar,

is there anywhere you can get a superstrat with the shorter gibson scale?

Carvins are 25" on neck-thru superstrats, as are the set-necks which can also be done-up very super-strattishly.

 

[allbutromeo]

Re: If you had your own signature guitar,

Another is one I've been kicking around in my head. A Fender Mustang with a roasted ash body and roasted maple neck, with either a pair of Stra-Bro-90s or a set of Tri-Sonics with Brian May switching

 

[6stringerguy]

If you had your own signature guitar,

Hard to decide but the basics would be
Passive pups HH with lots of clarity in low tunings (alpha omega SDs or Juggernaut BKPs)
A 20" radius fretboard
58 Gibson Flying V neck profile
Satin neck
25.5" scale
Hardtail bridge
Trans blue/purple finish
24 extra jumbo stainless steel frets
3 way blade pup selector
Volume with coil split and momentary killswitch
Titanium truss rod
Neck thru
Ebony Board
Gotoh locking tuners
Reverse Jackson headstock


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[punchlinechar]

Re: If you had your own signature guitar,

Black Jackson Star with:
25.5 scale Maple neck
Ebony fretboard
stainless steel 6105 frets
mahogany body
Gotoh Floyd
Coil tap
3 way toggle
Green arcade button kill switch
Flush mount strap locks
Black hardware
JB with blades in bridge
59 bridge 4 conductor in neck


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[Johnny the Kid]

Re: If you had your own signature guitar,

You're not kidding. I love that guitar. Next on the list is a metal pickguard for my Brent Hinds V, and the two will match. I don't need any more guitars for a long time, that's for sure.

Did you get one of those V's? I must have missed it. Lucky bastard. How do the Laces sound in it? I'm stuck trying to save my paychecks to pickup a new six string (I miss playing sixer's and the one I have that works doesn't fit what I want to play).

 

[Johnny the Kid]

Re: If you had your own signature guitar,

Yeah, it was a Christmas gift from my dad. It's my best sounding guitar, for sure. One of my best friends plays drums, and I've been meaning to take it over to his place and crank it up a bit. But from what I can tell, the pickups handle gain really well, yet they have a nice bounce to them. They're tight, but not surgical. I couldn't recommend the guitar enough.

I'll try to find one used in a few years. I'm looking at a Schecter ATX, because I want a modding platform with 24 frets.

 

[Johnny the Kid]

Re: If you had your own signature guitar,

Schecters are nothing to sneeze at. I played a satin black Solo 6 once, and it was like butter. I always get along better with 22 greeters though. I do like their new Explorer and V type guitars with the flame maple finishes. Not to mention those semi hollows.

The prog side of me spits on 22 frets. The sane side of me agrees with you. I love my ATX C7 so I'm hoping I like the ATX C1's too.

 

[Johnny the Kid]

Re: If you had your own signature guitar,

Seven strings and 24 frets, you're a madman. I have a tough enough time with six and 22.

I was a dumbass when I made the switch but now I can't imagine not owning at least 5.

 

[DKSEARS]

Re: If you had your own signature guitar,

Archtop Soloist in two versions:

Version A
24.75" scale
22 frets
Quartersawn mahogany neck-through
Mahogany body wings
Carved flame maple top
Translucent dyed finishes
TOM bridge, strings through body
Seymour Duncan '59A2 neck
Seymour Duncan JBA2 bridge
Six-way toggle pickup selector
2 volume, 2 tone

I have something very similar to this. Mine is an older USA SLS arch top with a quilt top under a three tone sunburst and is set up with the factory Duncan Pearly Gates (b) / Jazz .

Really nice guitar! It's what I go to for more traditional humbucker tones.


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